The Brazos Round-Up: Eight AMD E-350-Based Motherboards

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AMD’s Brazos platform, driven by the Zacate APU, offers a lot of performance per watt. It comes up short on features, though. Eight manufacturers try to change that perception by adding slots, controllers, and even overclocking in a couple of cases.

Benchmark Results: Crysis

Some of us have kept Crysis around as an almost-synthetic benchmark, simply because so many readers find the results interesting. Legendary for its ability to pull down even the mightiest gaming systems at its highest detail levels, choosing low visual quality allows it to run at similar frame rates compared to AvP.

As with CoD:MW2, most users will be able to play Crysis at the above settings until they reach a stuck frame and their character gets shot.

Similar performance with anti-aliasing enabled again points to the true culprits of poor Crysis performance, likely the CPU-side of the E-350 APU and its relatively modest memory throughput.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.